For the first time ever, a team of researchers from Columbia Engineering has developed a robot that can learn its self-model of its entire body from scratch without the aid of a human. The researchers detail how their robot built a kinematic model of itself and utilized that model to

All artificial intelligent agents are robots, but is it possible to generalize this to vice versa, that are robots artificial intelligence? Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) have made it possible to find creative answers to the problems encountered by humanity and companies of all sizes across industries. Yet many questions

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began with this more challenging task. They created a technique using multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), a form of artificial intelligence, to teach many agents to cooperate. Individual agents, such as robots or drones, can cooperate and finish a task when communication channels

The latest study showed expanding data sets with “fake data” offered at least 40% increase in the performance of robots. A new method widens training data sets for robots that operate with soft things like ropes and fabrics, or in congested situations, taking a step toward creating robots that can

The latest study showed that an AI can make robots racist and sexist, the robot chose males 8% more often than females. The research, led by scientists from Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Washington, is thought to be the first to demonstrate that robots

An algorithmic planner developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) can aid in delegating tasks to humans and robots. The planner, named “Act, Delegate, or Learn,” considers a list of activities before determining the best method to distribute them. The algorithmic planner can aid in delegating

Roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University pushed the limits of an all-terrain vehicle equipped with sensors to gather data for future self-driving ATVs. At speeds of up to 30 miles per hour, they pushed the heavily instrumented ATV across rough ground and cleared obstacles. They slid through turns, ascended and descended

A team of researchers developed microrobot collectives that are able to move in any pattern. The tiny particles are capable of swiftly and effectively changing their swarm behavior. The study is conducted in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Cornell University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

MIT researchers claim they’ve developed a new method to teach robots new skills, which may help them perform manual labor objectives more effectively. A warehouse robot picks mugs off a shelf and places them in boxes for shipment when e-commerce orders pour in. Everything is going smoothly until the warehouse

This article originally appeared on Hackernoon and is reproduced with permission. Earlier, widespread automation meant the introduction of service sector jobs or big stupid machines doing repetitive work in factories. That’s not the case a couple of decades down the line, is it? Now there is software that can land